While revealing Noah as a pivotal figure in the history of Western religious thinking, Philip Almond demonstrates how the flood story also had a very significant and forgotten role in the development of secular thought, even as it is now a powerful lightning rod for gathering climatic and environmental anxieties.
While revealing Noah as a pivotal figure in the history of Western religious thinking, Philip Almond demonstrates how the flood story also had a very significant and forgotten role in the development of secular thought, even as it is now a powerful lightning rod for gathering climatic and environmental anxieties.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Philip C. Almond is Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought at the University of Queensland. A noted authority in the history of religion and of ideas, he has written many books on subjects as diverse as God, the Devil, the afterlife, witchcraft and witches, Adam and Eve, heaven and hell in Enlightenment England, and early modern demonic possession. His recent works include The Buddha: Life and Afterlife Between East and West (2024), Mary Magdalene: A Cultural History (2023), and The Antichrist: A New Biography (2020), all published by Cambridge University Press.
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List of plates Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Prologue 1. Ancient floods and heroes 2. Building narrative arcs 3. Noah and the flood in Judaism and Islam 4. The late medieval and early modern Noah 5. Noah and the new science 6. Noah, myth, and history 7. Legends of Noah and the ark Epilogue: a legend for our time Bibliography Index.
List of plates Acknowledgements List of abbreviations Prologue 1. Ancient floods and heroes 2. Building narrative arcs 3. Noah and the flood in Judaism and Islam 4. The late medieval and early modern Noah 5. Noah and the new science 6. Noah, myth, and history 7. Legends of Noah and the ark Epilogue: a legend for our time Bibliography Index.
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